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8th Grade Reading

·        Choose the correct meaning / usage of multi-meaning words

·        Recognize and use grade and content specific vocabulary

·        Recognize the effect of stressed/unstressed syllables to aid in identifying meaning   

·        Formulate appropriate questions during reading

·        Plot graphic organizer

·        Title to reinforce the main idea of the passage

·        Determine cause-effect relationships

·        Select information using keywords and headings

·        Author's purpose/ Student's purpose for reading

·        Identify implied theme

·        Distinguish among different genres and their characteristics

·        Recognize point of view  

·        Identify how author reveals character    

 

8th Grade Language Arts

Prepositions and prepositional phrases

Author’s purpose for writing (to inform, to describe, to persuade, to explain)

Nouns

Author’s target audience

Modes of writing (technical, narrative, persuasive, descriptive)

Pronouns (reflexive, interrogative, demonstrative)

Interjections and conjunctions

Appositives and appositive phrases

Graphic organizers

Thesis statements

 

8th Grade Math

·        Opposite & reciprocal of a number
·        Locations of numbers on a number line
·        Square roots
·        Whole numbers
·        Decimal numbers
·        Fractions
·        Exponents
·        Order of operations
·        Equations
·        Inequalities 
·        Graphing ordered pairs
 
 

8th Grade Science

Symbiosis (Distinguish among commensalism, parasitism, and mutualism)

Biomes

Classification (Similarities and differences among organisms; classify plants and animals into groups according to their features; infer the relatedness of different organisms; use a simple classification key to identify an unknown organism; determine the genus and species of an organism using a dichotomous key)

Metamorphosis and Reproduction (Differentiate between complete and incomplete metamorphosis; distinguish between sexual and asexual methods of reproduction)

Heredity, Punnett Squares, DNA, Genetic Engineering

 

8th Grade American History

·   Discuss the development of major religions; identify the those diverse cultures has on the Americas’ development

·   Understand the relationship between a place’s physical, political, & cultural characteristics & the type of government that emerges from that relationship

·   Identify the ancient civilizations of the Americas

·   Recognize Tennessee’ role in the Americas’ early development and with Colonial America

·   Understand the geographic factors that determined the settlements in the U.S. and Tennessee

·   Discuss the influences of cooperation and conflict

·   Use a variety of historical information sources to develop critical sensitivities

·   Understand the events that shaped African slavery in Colonial America

·   Understand the causes and results of the American Revolution

 

ALGEBRA STANDARDS FOR FIRST NINE WEEKS

 

1.1  demonstrate an understanding of the subsets, properties, and operations of the real number system;

1.2  demonstrate an understanding of the relative size of rational and irrational numbers;

1.3  articulate, model, and apply the concept of inverse (e.g., opposites, reciprocals, and powers and roots);

1.4  describe, model, and apply inverse operations;

1.5  apply number theory concepts (e.g., primes, factors, divisibility and multiples) in mathematical problem solving;

1.6  connect graphical and symbolic representations of absolute value;

                      

1.8  use a variety of notations appropriately (e.g. exponential, functional, square root);

1.9  select and apply an appropriate method (i.e., mental mathematics, paper and pencil, or technology) for computing with real numbers, and evaluate the reasonableness of results;

           1.10  perform operations on algebraic expressions and informally

           justify      

           the procedures chosen;

 

2.1  recognize, analyze, extend, and create a variety of patterns;

 

2.3  solve linear systems using a variety of techniques;

2.4  communicate the meaning of variables in algebraic expressions, equations, and inequalities;

 

2.8  interpret results of algebraic procedures;

2.9  apply the concept of variable in simplifying algebraic expressions, solving equations, and solving inequalities;

 

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